controlling for individual policy priorities does not offset the gender gap, but those women who are interested in politics are …A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a … gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females …

A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a … gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … are less supportive of democracy than males in a number of countries. Using data for 20 Sub-Saharan African countries, we …

involvement by gender in the labor force; and 4) the influence of marriage, on women’s and men’s cultural participation. A … and cultural consumption. However, empirical analyses consistently report that gender is an essential determinant of … highbrow cultural participation. In particular, women are considerably and significantly more likely than men to participate in …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors underlying the gender gap in African electoral and inter … democracies, the empirical findings suggest that while there is a gender gap in both voting and inter-electoral participation, the … determinants of participation, they explain only a very modest share of the observed gender gaps. We do find, however, that gender …

controlling for individual policy priorities does not offset the gender gap, but those women who are interested in politics are … development and political rights. Keywords Support for democracy, gender gap, policy priorities, institutions …A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a …

protect laws friendly to women. Key words Support for democracy, gender difference, social institutions …Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in Sub … democracy in this region. This paper addresses the question of whether this observed gender gap is due to the omission of social …

Women employment has become a critical development challenge globally. This is because the exclusion of women in … democracy, higher female to male population ratio, and being a net oil-exporting country tend to lower it. In Sub-Saharan Africa … to increase female employment while the level of real GDP per capita, the level of institutionalized democracy and its …

female, all male, and coeducational. They were not allowed to change group subsequently. We found that women are less likely … to make risky choices than men at both dates. However, after eight weeks in a single-sex class environment, women were … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning …

propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate … testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater … chance of females in ‘unentrepreneurial’ cultures being relatively entrepreneurial compared to males. Also women from …

they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …